As ‘s trial nears its end in , her ex-husband is hundreds of miles away trying to rebuild a life that keeps being dragged back into the spotlight.
Patrick Clancy, 38, was seen this week touring apartments in a quiet neighborhood of Manhattan as he and new wife, , seek to escape the glare of publicity.
He rode a Citi Bike through the streets and wandered around incognito, wearing a golf-branded baseball cap and sunglᴀsses in an apparent bid to avoid being recognized.
Patrick viewed properties with realtor Alex Grapstein from Corcoran, a real estate company specializing in luxury condos, townhouses and high-end rentals.
The apartment hunt comes just a week after the newlyweds were secretly filmed by neighbors at the one-bedroom they currently share in busy midtown Manhattan.
Family and friends of the couple tell the Daily Mail they are struggling with a linked to the trial.
Cruel and totally baseless conspiracy theories have spread rapidly across social media falsely claiming Patrick was involved in the deaths of his and Lindsay’s three young children.
One of Patrick’s relatives, speaking to the Daily Mail on condition of anonymity, said the ordeal has taken a heavy toll on everyone close to the family, even as Patrick tries to push forward.
Patrick Clancy, 38, was seen this week touring apartments in a quieter part of Manhattan
He rode a Citi Bike through the city and wandered around incognito, wearing a baseball cap and sunglᴀsses in an apparent bid to avoid being recognized
Patrick viewed properties with Alex Grapstein, a realtor from Corcoran, which specializes in luxury condos, townhouses and high-end rentals
‘I think he is doing okay under the circumstances,’ the relative said. ‘It’s very stressful for the whole family.’
Grapstein, Patrick’s realtor, told the Daily Mail that Patrick is searching for a new place once the lease expires on the $5,500-a-month, 750sq ft apartment he currently shares with Rachel.
The agent declined to comment further, calling the subject ‘too sensitive’ given the ongoing public attention.
In Plymouth, Mᴀssachusetts, 36-year-old Lindsay Clancy stands accused of murdering her and Patrick’s three children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan, in their Duxbury home back in January 2023.
Lindsay has admitted to strangling all three kids using fitness bands but has claimed she is not guilty of murder because she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis when the killings occurred, and therefore bears no criminal responsibility.
Prosecutors reject that account entirely, arguing instead that the killings were calculated and deliberate, and that Lindsay purposely sent Patrick out on errands that night to clear the house before she acted.
Patrick has testified in Lindsay’s defense and filed a lawsuit against her healthcare providers.
In the aftermath of the attack, Lindsay slit her own wrists and throat and leapt from a second-floor window at their home, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.
She has remained in custody or under court-ordered psychiatric care ever since.
Patrick moved out of the Boston suburbs and into Manhattan in May 2023, four months after his children were killed and beginning what would become a very public rebuilding of his personal life.
Patrick moved to NYC four months after the deaths of his children and began rebuilding his life
Cruel and baseless conspiracy theories have spread rapidly across social media claiming Patrick was involved in the deaths of his and Lindsay’s three young children
He has testified in his ex-wife’s defense but has refused to visit her since the killings
PH๏τos of him with Rachel Danis, 37, first surfaced online the following February, and the family’s home in Duxbury sold in May 2024.
Rachel, a fertility doctor, later moved into Patrick’s Midtown Manhattan apartment, and by late last year she was pH๏τographed wearing what appeared to be an engagement ring.
The pair married in April in a small ceremony at the famous Ladies Pavilion overlooking the lake in Central Park, followed by a celebration at nearby Sarabeth’s restaurant.
Yet the newlyweds have found no real refuge from the fallout of Lindsay’s trial, even far away in New York City.
A groundswell of online sympathy for Lindsay has fueled accusations from strangers that Patrick somehow failed his ex-wife.
Some of the uglier viral posts have gone further, suggesting without any evidence that Patrick and Rachel played roles in the children’s deaths.
The strain appeared to boil over earlier this month, when a neighbor secretly pH๏τographed the couple on a shared terrace at their luxury midtown building.
A witness described the pair spending roughly half an hour alternating between checking their phones and talking quietly to one another, visibly tense and dressed casually for the summer evening heat.
Patrick, who works as a salesman for Microsoft, was seen pacing in тιԍнт circles while on a call.
Both Patrick and Rachel have received death threats and had personal details posted publicly as part of an online harᴀssment campaign.
Friends say Patrick and his family have struggled with the negative attention
Patrick with his ex-wife Lindsay and two oldest children Cora, five, and Dawson, three
Patrick’s relative described the online pile-on as sheer ‘internet lunacy’ that has caused real damage to the couple’s daily lives.
A separate friend of the Clancy family told the Daily Mail that people online have been needlessly cruel and should focus on their own lives instead of tearing others down.
‘People are crazy, and people are stupid, and people are mean-spirited, and people should just worry about themselves,’ said the friend.
‘We need to put more good in the world. Not try to get people. It’s disgusting.’
Patrick, who took the stand during Lindsay’s trial, has never faced any accusations of wrongdoing in connection with the deaths.
He testified in her defense, describing her as a loving mother before the tragedy, and has since filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Lindsay’s healthcare providers, alleging negligence contributed to his children’s deaths.
Those providers deny any wrongdoing, and the lawsuit remains ongoing.
Patrick’s attorney has pushed back hard against online commentators, calling their claims false and defamatory in a public statement.
Patrick found new love in Dr Rachel Danis, whom he married earlier this year
Couple Patrick Clancy and Rachel Danis have shared pᴀssions for charitable causes
Patrick grew emotional as he took the stand to testify in his ex-wife’s trial last month
Lindsay Clancy has been receiving psychiatric treatment since the tragedy in January 2023
‘The facts are indisputable: Patrick Clancy has suffered an unspeakable and unimaginable loss,’ his attorney said.
‘The individuals making those statements – from minor influencers to major celebrities – should be on notice that their despicable actions and false, defamatory statements have caused real life consequences to the health and safety of Patrick and his family.’
Whether Patrick and Rachel can finally step out of the spotlight once the trial concludes at Plymouth Superior Court remains to be seen.
After nearly a month of often harrowing testimony, jurors this week heard from the final witnesses in a case that has centered on Lindsay’s mental state on the night she killed her children.
Lindsay faces three counts of first-degree murder, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole under Mᴀssachusetts law.
Should jurors find her not guilty by reason of lacking criminal responsibility, state law would typically require her to undergo further mental evaluation and likely commitment to a state hospital for treatment.
She has already been held at Tewksbury Hospital for court-ordered psychiatric care since May 2023. If jurors cannot reach a unanimous verdict, the judge overseeing the case could still declare a mistrial.
💔 STELLA PARTON BREAKS HER SILENCE — What She Said About Dolly’s Health Has Fans Looking Back
Dolly Parton’s Sister Breaks Silence What Really Happened - GMT - G1
Stella Parton was born May 4, 1949, the sixth of twelve children raised by Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee — a household defined by noise, limited money, and almost no privacy, the kind of environment that produced strong, determined personalities.
Stella was one of them.
By seven, she was appearing alongside her older sister Dolly on a Knoxville television program; by her teens, she was writing her own songs, though marriage and motherhood pulled music to the margins of her life for a stretch.
The dream never fully disappeared.
In 1967, she recorded a gospel album with her mother and sisters, and later worked clubs in Washington, D.C., before founding her own record label in 1975 and releasing “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” which climbed to number nine on the country charts.
Long before any of that commercial success, Stella had already shown a willingness to take positions others avoided.
At 26, amid backlash against Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for winning recognition in country music, Stella recorded “Ode to Olivia” in her defense — a stand that offered her no career benefit and real risk of criticism, but one she took anyway simply because she believed staying silent was the wrong choice.
That instinct defined the rest of her career: hits like “The Danger of a Stranger” and “Steady as the Rain” (written by Dolly) built a genuine, independent following, including in the U.K., while Stella also worked in New York theater and spoke openly, often controversially, about poverty, domestic violence, and the treatment of women in the music industry.
She was named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 2004.
Through all of it, she remained defined publicly, more often than not, as simply “Dolly’s little sister” — a label she spent five decades quietly proving didn’t tell the full story.
That same directness is why her comments in the fall of 2025 carried real weight.
Stella had never positioned herself as the family’s image manager or spokesperson; she was, by reputation, someone who believed difficult truths shouldn’t stay hidden indefinitely.
What she described wasn’t dramatic or accusatory — it was a portrait of a woman who had spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs over her own.
The context mattered.
Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025 at 82, after a long illness during which Dolly had devoted herself almost entirely to his care.
She later acknowledged that in the process, she’d neglected her own health significantly.
The loss reverberated through the whole extended family — the Partons had lost three brothers in the years surrounding this period, compounding grief that, for a family that had once crowded twelve children into a single small home, meant losing pieces of a shared childhood one after another.
Stella herself went seven years without releasing new music during this stretch, later describing the period simply as one shaped by sorrow, while still speaking about the importance of finding moments of laughter within it.
Looking back, one moment reads very differently in hindsight than it did at the time: in late September 2025, Dolly postponed her planned Las Vegas residency, citing health challenges — a rare cancellation for a performer whose six-decade career had included very few of them.
At the time, most fans treated it as a minor, temporary setback.
Stella’s later reflections suggested the signs had actually been building for some time, visible to family in ways the public smile made easy to miss.
That concern crystallized publicly not long after, when Dolly’s younger sister Frieda posted a simple request on Facebook asking fans to pray for Dolly.
What looked at first like an ordinary, well-meaning gesture spread rapidly, sparking widespread speculation about how serious Dolly’s condition actually was.
Dolly herself responded directly within days, appearing in a video from a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot, insisting with her familiar humor that she wasn’t finished yet — the now widely remembered “I ain’t dead yet” moment that briefly quieted public concern.
In the months that followed, the pattern repeated: reassuring updates about kidney stones, dehydration, and treatment, paired with continued work on new projects, right up until Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at 80.
Looking back across that full timeline — the postponed residency, the family’s public worry, Stella’s own account of a sister who consistently deprioritized her own wellbeing — it becomes easier to see what the people closest to Dolly understood well before the rest of the world did: that the warmth and resilience the public saw every time she appeared on camera came at a real, largely invisible cost.
